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vol.1 * the numb 34 w ilmington centinel and general advertiser , 1 wednesday november 12 1788 fortbec e n t 1 n e l meffrt printers therefore entitled to protection ; that the chief article of the protection he claims the great point for which men enter into fociety and fubmit to its reftraints is the certainty for fupport againft oppreffion and redrefs for injuries not dilatory diftant redreff but that which is fpeedy and effectu al he acknowledges thatjuftice is as attainable by him as by others ; for he is not ignorant of the incredible number of honeft families who are pining in want doubt and wretched riefs from the effe&s of the mifchief he complains of but he is forced tu apply to the legiflature becaufe he hath fought for juftice in the ordinary way and cannot acquire it ; he hatri not been denied it but it is delayed which for many years has and for as many more may be to him the fame as a denial youv memorial ifr therefore having made his grievous fituation known u you avid begging leave to remind you that it is only a iingle inftance of fimi lar calamities fo great and numerous as to have become a fubjecl of general complaint irremediable without your interpofition ; and confidering that ir is a common practice to apply to the legiflature in fach cafes as require their affiftance even in concerns trifling to the laft degree when compared to this and that theaflembly pay due regard to fuch applications â€” he humbly prays that you will be pleafed to take his cafe into immediate confideration arut grant fuch relief as to your wifdoci hall feem proper â€” and your memo rialing c suppose a memorial like the fol lowing fliould be fent to the affern bly by a perfon in the fituation therein defcribed i hould think it would confider itfelf bound to re drc r > the grievances there ftated either by applying a remedy to the particular cafe or elie more con fiitent with dignity by deviling fuch a plan for the adminiftration cf iuftice as to prevent our annal being ftained in future with fuch reprefentations to the honorable the general aftenv bly c c the memorial of â€” , humbly sheweth that your memorialj&js sl native of the county of â€” 22 poffefted of a wife and nine children with an eftate of 400 acres of land and jour working flaves â€” that in the year 1778 he became entitled to a property in ilaves and fpecie of the value of two thoufand five hundred pounds at the loweft computation ; which property having fallen into the hands of , is withheld by him from your memo rialifr en fundry pretences that your memorial ft from his averfion to dif putes i'uffered himfelf to be amufed for two years by promifes of an ami cable fettlement and other artifices of the faid , when he found himfelf at length under the neceflity of infti tuting a fuit to recover by the interpo fition of the law what he ceuld not ctherwife obtain â€” that he brought the faid fuit in the court of his county at the term of november 1780 and ob tained a vcrdift and judgment in his favour at the term of auguft 1783 from which the faid appealed to the fuperior court of the diftridr where the caufe was continued to the term of , in the year 1786 when the judg ment of the county court was fully confirmed eftablifhing your memo nalift's right conclufively,as he hoped ; but hoped it feems in vain ; for the faid hath carried the fuit into the court of equity where it is now refted and appears from the quantity of bufineis in courfe before it likely to reft in peace during the remainder of his life â€” that your metnorialift is a man of fmall property whofe conftant attention is neceflary to the fupport of his family with too poor an income to fupport the charges he hath been drawn into without the greateft dif trefs to his affairs â€” that he hath with ex n erne difficulty found means to fuf tain them and the lofs of time in at tending at eleven county and ten fupe nor courts upon this fuit till at length he now finds himfelf utterly exhauftcd of all further reiburces for purfuing his juft and to him important claim while in addition to the cruelty of his fituation he happens to be oppofed to a crafty man who at this time pof fefllng property fufficicvt to enable mm to difcharge expence which over whelm your memorialed is univerlal jyjjylicvcd to be fo involved and de clining it rris circumftanccs that un lefs juftice is fpeedily obtained againft him he will be without effecls where from r o procure it whereupon the whole taken toge ther the condition of your memorial ift is this : â€” he hath been ten years deprived of his property by a villain who diverts himfelf with his diftreffes ; he hath fought redrefs at law for eight years during which the food eloathing and education of his family have been facrificed to the profecution of it ; and he is at length likely to be turned out of doors by the demands of his witneffes with the expectation that he will in fome few years be re compenced for all this by hearing his competitor read the 40s oath that your memorialift thus having reafon to complain of an evil of the firft magnitude exifting in the govern ment viz the amazing delay of juftice he is induced to apply with the greateft deference to your honourable body for relief in his diftrefs becaufe it is from your wifdom and juftice that every citi zen has a right to expeÂ£l good govern ment a plain labouring man un verfed in politics he prefumes not to attempt at pointing out the caufe of this evil but he reprefents to you that he is an indifputable good citizen of the ftate â€” that he hath paid due alle giance to it and performed all the du ties of his ftaticn with alacrity and is qftdskssftss i^*aroa%dsx33ki education in order to render himfelf more extensively ufefui to wilmington and its vicinity the reverend mr stewart propofes opening school as foon as a competent number of scholars offer he will inftruct the youth that may be committed to his care in the learned languages the englifli grammatically and the piiii cipies of religion natural and re vealed wilmington sept 30th 1788

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vol.1 * the numb 34 w ilmington centinel and general advertiser , 1 wednesday november 12 1788 fortbec e n t 1 n e l meffrt printers therefore entitled to protection ; that the chief article of the protection he claims the great point for which men enter into fociety and fubmit to its reftraints is the certainty for fupport againft oppreffion and redrefs for injuries not dilatory diftant redreff but that which is fpeedy and effectu al he acknowledges thatjuftice is as attainable by him as by others ; for he is not ignorant of the incredible number of honeft families who are pining in want doubt and wretched riefs from the effe&s of the mifchief he complains of but he is forced tu apply to the legiflature becaufe he hath fought for juftice in the ordinary way and cannot acquire it ; he hatri not been denied it but it is delayed which for many years has and for as many more may be to him the fame as a denial youv memorial ifr therefore having made his grievous fituation known u you avid begging leave to remind you that it is only a iingle inftance of fimi lar calamities fo great and numerous as to have become a fubjecl of general complaint irremediable without your interpofition ; and confidering that ir is a common practice to apply to the legiflature in fach cafes as require their affiftance even in concerns trifling to the laft degree when compared to this and that theaflembly pay due regard to fuch applications â€” he humbly prays that you will be pleafed to take his cafe into immediate confideration arut grant fuch relief as to your wifdoci hall feem proper â€” and your memo rialing c suppose a memorial like the fol lowing fliould be fent to the affern bly by a perfon in the fituation therein defcribed i hould think it would confider itfelf bound to re drc r > the grievances there ftated either by applying a remedy to the particular cafe or elie more con fiitent with dignity by deviling fuch a plan for the adminiftration cf iuftice as to prevent our annal being ftained in future with fuch reprefentations to the honorable the general aftenv bly c c the memorial of â€” , humbly sheweth that your memorialj&js sl native of the county of â€” 22 poffefted of a wife and nine children with an eftate of 400 acres of land and jour working flaves â€” that in the year 1778 he became entitled to a property in ilaves and fpecie of the value of two thoufand five hundred pounds at the loweft computation ; which property having fallen into the hands of , is withheld by him from your memo rialifr en fundry pretences that your memorial ft from his averfion to dif putes i'uffered himfelf to be amufed for two years by promifes of an ami cable fettlement and other artifices of the faid , when he found himfelf at length under the neceflity of infti tuting a fuit to recover by the interpo fition of the law what he ceuld not ctherwife obtain â€” that he brought the faid fuit in the court of his county at the term of november 1780 and ob tained a vcrdift and judgment in his favour at the term of auguft 1783 from which the faid appealed to the fuperior court of the diftridr where the caufe was continued to the term of , in the year 1786 when the judg ment of the county court was fully confirmed eftablifhing your memo nalift's right conclufively,as he hoped ; but hoped it feems in vain ; for the faid hath carried the fuit into the court of equity where it is now refted and appears from the quantity of bufineis in courfe before it likely to reft in peace during the remainder of his life â€” that your metnorialift is a man of fmall property whofe conftant attention is neceflary to the fupport of his family with too poor an income to fupport the charges he hath been drawn into without the greateft dif trefs to his affairs â€” that he hath with ex n erne difficulty found means to fuf tain them and the lofs of time in at tending at eleven county and ten fupe nor courts upon this fuit till at length he now finds himfelf utterly exhauftcd of all further reiburces for purfuing his juft and to him important claim while in addition to the cruelty of his fituation he happens to be oppofed to a crafty man who at this time pof fefllng property fufficicvt to enable mm to difcharge expence which over whelm your memorialed is univerlal jyjjylicvcd to be fo involved and de clining it rris circumftanccs that un lefs juftice is fpeedily obtained againft him he will be without effecls where from r o procure it whereupon the whole taken toge ther the condition of your memorial ift is this : â€” he hath been ten years deprived of his property by a villain who diverts himfelf with his diftreffes ; he hath fought redrefs at law for eight years during which the food eloathing and education of his family have been facrificed to the profecution of it ; and he is at length likely to be turned out of doors by the demands of his witneffes with the expectation that he will in fome few years be re compenced for all this by hearing his competitor read the 40s oath that your memorialift thus having reafon to complain of an evil of the firft magnitude exifting in the govern ment viz the amazing delay of juftice he is induced to apply with the greateft deference to your honourable body for relief in his diftrefs becaufe it is from your wifdom and juftice that every citi zen has a right to expeÂ£l good govern ment a plain labouring man un verfed in politics he prefumes not to attempt at pointing out the caufe of this evil but he reprefents to you that he is an indifputable good citizen of the ftate â€” that he hath paid due alle giance to it and performed all the du ties of his ftaticn with alacrity and is qftdskssftss i^*aroa%dsx33ki education in order to render himfelf more extensively ufefui to wilmington and its vicinity the reverend mr stewart propofes opening school as foon as a competent number of scholars offer he will inftruct the youth that may be committed to his care in the learned languages the englifli grammatically and the piiii cipies of religion natural and re vealed wilmington sept 30th 1788